The Week in Review
ending August 20
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The Democrats party in Los Angeles
The Democrats held their national convention this week
in Los Angeles, California, and welcomed Native
Americans and tribes in preparation for the upcoming
election.
As President Clinton said goodbye to the nation,
the party said hello to the Native American
Caucus, the first of its kind for either the donkeys
or the elephants. Vice-Presidential
candidate Joe Lieberman was one of many who
spoke before the Caucus, who met throughout the week to discuss
sovereignty, economic development, and other
issues facing tribes and Native people today.
The Gore-Lieberman team used the week to address
some of the challenges facing the pair. Resolving
conflicts in style and politics between the two,
addressing the Clinton legacy, and
making Gore stand out on his own were among the week's
many goals and despite pundits who said the party
may not have succeeded, polls out this week show
Gore taking the lead over George W. Bush for
the first time.
Get the Story:
Convention
highlights contrasts (8/14)
Donkey
delivers to Indian Country (8/14)
A
little bit of Monica? (8/14)
Convention
welcomes Natives (8/15)
Text
of Rep. Patrick Kennedy's remarks (8/15)
Clinton
says goodbye to nation (8/15)
Text
of President Clinton's remarks (8/15)
Protesters
hit convention, Gore (8/15)
Lieberman
embraces affirmative action (8/16)
Lieberman
addresses tribes (8/16)
Where
are the Dems on tribes? (8/16)
The
2000 Democratic Platform on Tribes (8/16)
Seminole
family always Democrats (8/17)
Native
voters courted (8/18)
Federal recognition still in the news
Federal recognition is an issue that won't ever go away,
thanks to our friends (or enemies, to some) in Connecticut.
Richard Blumenthal, the state's attorney general,
has officially asked for a six-month extension to
the public comment period for the Eastern Pequot
and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot tribes. Whether
or not Kevin Gover at the Bureau of Indian
Affairs or the Department of
Interior will grant it is another question,
but Gover has nothing nice to say about Blumenthal in
an Indian Country Today interview.
And although not speaking directly to three
towns who oppose the federal recognition of
the two tribes, Gover told state lawmakers
the BIA forgot to tell the towns about
a missed deadline but wasn't required to do so
anyway. The towns are still upset.
One of the questions raised by the state
and towns was Gover's decision to recognize
the tribes despite lack of evidence presented
by the two. It may have slipped under
the radar of many, but the Little Shell Chippewa
of Montana are apparently in the same boat
in terms of missing documentation.
Get the Story:
Brown,
not Thomas attended Pequot meeting (8/14)
Recognition
nears for Nipmuc (8/14)
Town
complains about BIA (8/15)
Gover
writes state lawmakers (8/15)
Decisions
put Gover in the middle (8/16)
Little
Shell finding a departure (8/16)
Gover
gets personal (Tribal Law 8/16)
State
asks for Pequot extension (8/17)
Ruling
against state sought (8/18)
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